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Governor Vetoes Campus Free Speech Bill

The deep red state of Louisiana is not known for college campus radicalism, outside of the bigots who believe a Tiger mascot is racist. But considering the left's war on free speech, shouting, intimidation, or violence, shutting down people expressing ideas they don't like, the Louisiana legislature decided to head off what many believe is coming sooner or later.

Governor John Bel Edwards(D), decried House Bill 269, previously passed the Louisiana Senate by a 30-3 vote, and the State House of Representatives with a unanimous vote, as a “solution in search of a problem”. The bill would have ensured that universities afforded “any person lawfully present on a campus” the right to political speech, so long as it was not disruptive. HB 269 also mandated a disciplinary hearing and allowed for potential punishment for those who impeded 1st amendment protected free speech.

“This bill is a solution in search of a problem that creates a long, detailed structure for the evaluation of the freedom of expression on college campuses. However, this bill is unnecessary and overly burdensome to our colleges and universities as the freedoms this bill attempts to protect are already well-established by the bedrock principles” in both the state and national constitution." - Gov. John Bel Edwards

Perhaps Gov. Edwards doesn't pay attention to the news, or maybe he just doesn't care because Democrats aren't being intimidated and attacked. Despite all the examples of violence, speakers being blocked, and the overwhelming atmosphere of intimidation on campuses across the country towards non-Leftist thought, Edwards doesn't seem to feel there's a problem. 

The truth is that an alarming number now feel completely justified in denying someone's opportunity to speak in a public venue by any means necessary. In a state struggling to balance a budget, damaged economically by Obamacare regulation, and Feral Travons shooting up sections of the three largest cities in the state, the last thing Louisiana needs is outsiders coming in and causing trouble and violating anyone's rights with out consequences.

You can bet if it were queers, muslims, blacks or just women targeted for intimidation and violent anti-free speech protest, you know what would happen. The left would be going ape-shit and congressional Dems would be calling for FBI and Civil Rights investigations. 

There shouldn't be a need for free speech laws beyond the Constitution, but here we are.

Our Monthly Visit to Crazyville

Alex Jones - Naked Lunch  

Last night we took our regular month ending visit to Ground Zero For Crazy, the websites Salon dot com and Alex Jones' InfoWorld.  And man did we pick the right night. Jones was taking a break Thursday from his important work like exposing the secret conspiracy of how Hillary Clinton’s death squads (or the CIA) keep killing Trump pal, Roger Stone, to do some old-school space-alien X-Files craziness for a change. It was actually kind of nostalgic!

Jones’s guest, Robert David Steele, casually brought up the secret pedophile pleasure colonies on Mars that are the final destination for thousands of kidnapped children. (It's secret, that’s why there’s no evidence!).  After Steele explained that virtually all the kidnapped children have their bone marrow taken and used as a youth serum (oddly, he cited no clinical trials on that), Steele got to the real scandal that nobody dares talk about:

"This may strike your listeners as way out but we actually believe that there is a colony on Mars that is populated by children who were kidnapped and sent into space on a 20 year ride. So that once they get to Mars they have no alternative but to be slaves on the Mars colony. There’s all kinds of ..."

Unfortunately, before Steele could explain more about this Mars colony, like how long it’s been there, who runs it, and why there’s no trail of evidence from missing children reports to these secret rocket launches, Jones interrupted him. That’s a shame since we wanted to know more about those 20-year rocket trips, which apparently use prop planes, since NASA usually gets probes to Mars in under a year.  Or maybe it’s a trip to Mars plus 19 years of servitude, and then the pedophile colonists eat the now-adult victims. In any case, Jones had to share what HE knows about all of NASA’s trickery:

Note: Must read in Alex Jones Voice:

"Look, I know that 90 percent of the NASA missions are secret and I’ve been told by high level NASA engineers that you have no idea, there is so much stuff going on. But then it goes off into all that, that’s the kind of thing the media jumps on. But I know this: we see a bunch of mechanical wreckage on Mars and people say, “Oh look, it looks like mechanics.” They go, “Oh, you’re a conspiracy theorist.” Clearly they don’t want us looking into what is happening. Every time probes go over they turn them off. Well I don’t know about Mars bases, but I know they’ve created massive, thousands of different types of chimeras that are alien lifeforms on this earth now." 

Well, yeah. Everyone knows about the alien chimera lifeforms, DUH! But as expected,  NASA quickly denied the rumor.  We actually rather missed the good old bugfuck-crazy version of Alex Jones, the guy who’s worried about the Gay Bomb that’s Turning all the Frogs Gay and the New World Order plot to replace most of humanity with cyborg slaves. At least that nonsense is sort of harmless, as opposed to inciting idiots to harass the parents of slain Sandy Hook School Children.

For the First Time Since November, The Word That Does Not Appear on the Front-page at CNN: Russia.

The Narrative has Changed

Clicky to Embiginate

Althouse - "I do see — look closely — "Van Jones: O'Keefe video is a hoax." The video is the one where we hear Van Jones say "That Russia thing is just a big nothing-burger." But the teaser on the front page doesn't give us a clue that the video had to do with Russia, and even when you click through, there's no mention of the substance of what we hear Jones say in the video, just the assertion: "CNN's Van Jones says the ambush video of him done by notorious provocateur James O'Keefe is a hoax."

And how is the video a hoax? I think Jones is misusing the word, because he does not deny that he is the man in the video or that there's some context that would change the meaning of his statement. He indicates that he could have said other things, but not that he did actually on that occasion say more and O'Keefe had it edited out......."  - READ MORE

Fishnet Friday

We're Trapped in a Junior High Lunch Room of National Politics

MSNBC's Morning with Squinty and Meat Puppet

Since we're living in a world gone mad, I suppose nothing should surprise us. No matter how weird things get, we should probably just shrug our shoulders, say "huh. that happened," and move along. I mean, the last election should have prepared us for how strange things were going to get, right? Nope.

This morning, we woke to find ourselves in a strange new reality where the President of the United States rips a TV host for her bleeding face lift, and she fires back with a "small hands" meme. We're trapped in the Junior high lunch room of national politics, a place where children squawk at each other while the world burns around them.

Sure, Mika's a blithering dolt. No one's arguing otherwise. She's wrong about virtually everything, has no business being the host of an alleged "news" show, and the flood of faux outrage she pours over every single minute issue grew exhausting years ago. But doesn't the leader of the free world have better things to do? 

I get that the media is, rightly, despised, and that they provide a hilarious punching bag, but at some point you have to step away from the keyboard and think about what you're saying. 

Punchline that she is, Mika fired back in predictable fashion...

Yep. A "small hands" joke - which, as you know, is really a reference to a small ...something else. In other words, Mika's decided to go the "I know you are but what am I" route. It's just as childish and probably twice as dumb.

This whole episode illustrates my one and only complaint with Donald Trump: Not using social media to his advantage to forward his policies and agenda.  Everyday reporters in the traditional media expose themselves as biased and fraudulent. You don't arm your enemy, and you don't get in the way of your enemy while they are in the process of committing suicide. 

Even When Donald Trump Loses, He Wins!

Trump Tower Toronto

Donald Trump is the greatest deal-maker ever. If you don’t believe that, then consider this story from Canada, where The Trump Organization will make a tidy profit off people who want nothing to with him.

JCF Capital ULC, which owns the Trump International Hotel & Tower in Toronto, is so keen to get the Trump name off the building that it’s paying an undisclosed sum (said to be upwards of $6 million) to get out of a licensing agreement initiated by the original owner that allowed them to slapped the Trump brand on the hotel complex.

The Trump name is expected to be removed from the buildings as early as August 1, according to “a person with knowledge of the matter” who spoke to Bloomberg Business anonymously, since the deal is confidential. It was not reported whether the source was snickering at the idea that getting out of Donald Trump’s name was worth every penny, or just Loony. A new name for the building complex hasn’t been announced yet, but maybe they could go with “The Sexxy Justin Trudeau Arms.” 

Since JCF Capital is a U.S. based company, it remains to be seen whether a foreign company paying to distance itself from the president would violate the obscure "Emoluments" clause. For those who slept through civics class, it is 49 words in Article I of the Constitution:

“No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”

According to legal scholars, these words were added out of a concern from the 1700s that American ambassadors, on the far side of the pond, might be corrupted by gifts from rich European powers. Benjamin Franklin, for instance, had accepted a snuffbox festooned with 400 diamonds from the King of France. John Jay accepted a horse from the King of Spain. Both basically said FU to their critics, and after that the Emoluments Clause rarely came up again. It’s never been the subject of a major court case and never been taken up by the Supreme Court, leaving great uncertainty about what it really means. And you can bet the left will find some miraculous unknown restriction or prohibition and try and make hay.  

But as I said, even when he loses, he wins. Last October, the CEO of Trump Hotels announced plans for a new chain of exciting, high priced luxurious resort hotels, unpolluted by the Trump brand to be called “Scion”, pointed at wealthy millennials who wouldn't vote for him anyway and would rather stay in a hotel that sounds like a failed Japanese car brand. 

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